Gunman opens fire on GOP baseball practice

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A second Congressman, Roger Williams, and 3 Capitol Police Officers were also shot. Reporting indicates that the shooter targeted the GOP baseball practice intending to kill as many as possible. Capitol Police prevented a massacre…
 
What do the Dems think resist means? Keep the mantra of conspiracy theories, Trump is Hitler, racist, Homophobe, Islamophobe et cetera and the easily aggrieved and perpetually aggravated will respond. I am next expecting the trite little expression of the police are not certain what the shooters motivation was. Like the wacko a couple years ago at the Family Research Council HQ.
 
This is horrible news. My prayers, and I am sure all of yours, are with everyone involved.
 
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What do the Dems think resist means? Keep the mantra of conspiracy theories, Trump is Hitler, racist, Homophobe, Islamophobe et cetera and the easily aggrieved and perpetually aggravated will respond. I am next expecting the trite little expression of the police are not certain what the shooters motivation was. Like the wacko a couple years ago at the Family Research Council HQ.
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Did the pro-life movement own Robert Dear when he shot up a planned parenthood? It’s tiresome to constantly see entire groups blamed for individual acts of violence. Is it a partisan thing to make the other side look bad or is it something else?
 
If you really believe those are babies being slaughtered taking violent action to stop the murder of innocents can be condoned. Where under Nazi rule, that is what the resistance did. Killed Germans hither and yon, when they could.

Whether the prolife groups took ownership of Dear, I would doubt it. They probably gave some weasel noise of not believing in violence but in changing hearts and so forth.

As the rhetoric escalates expect the unhinged to become unhinged. You shout resist then have the guts to own it.

Like turning Shakespeare’s Julius Creaser into assignation of Trump, well don’t be surprised if somebody tries it. Despite the weasel word disclaimer by some gnome before the play starts.

PS I am not a partisan, just a casual observer. Here is a prediction, if the non-sense from the DNC and RNC continues expect more with retaliation guaranteed and we can watch the US slip in to third world status…
 
Apparently Rand Paul said the only reason they weren’t all killed was that the Majority Whip, who has a security detail, was there.
 
The shooter is believed to be James T Hodgkinson 66 of Belleville Illinois
 
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/images/POLICE_SCENE.jpgWashington D.C., Jun 14, 2017 / 08:44 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Republican House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, 51, was among multiple persons shot in an incident at a Congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia, Wednesday morning.

Scalise, a Catholic, was shot and the hip and was transported to surgery. He is reportedly in stable condition.

“Prior to entering surgery, the Whip was in good spirits and and spoke to his wife by phone,” Scalise’s office said in a statement. “He is grateful for the brave actions of U.S. Capitol Police, first responders, and colleagues.”

A total of five people were “medically transported” from the scene, according to authorities.

Shots were fired around 7:15 a.m. Wednesday morning while Republican lawmakers were practicing for Thursday’s Congressional Baseball Game. U.S. Capitol Police shot and apprehended the gunman, who was taken to the hospital. Alexandria Police tweeted that the 'suspect is in custody and not a threat.’”

A bipartisan prayer took place on the field shortly after the scene was under control.

.@HouseDemocrats praying for our @HouseGOP @SenateGOP baseball colleagues after hearing about the horrific shooting. t.co/y2HEUaSuzd pic.twitter.com/6HBrlnxtey

— Rep. Ruben J. Kihuen (@RepKihuen) June 14, 2017Congressman Scalise is a Republican who was elected to represent Louisiana in 2008. Before running for Congress, he had served in the Louisiana state senate for four months and in the Louisiana House of Representatives for 12 years.

He is married to the former Jennifer Letulle and they have an 8 year-old daughter, Madison Carol and an 8 year-old, Harrison Joseph.

Scalise is a life-long Catholic and his wife are members of the St. Agnes Catholic Church. Two years ago he tweeted a photo of his daughter’s first communion.

Madison had her First Communion yesterday. Jennifer, Harrison and I are so proud of her. #Beaming pic.twitter.com/SJa53Le9yj

— Rep. Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) April 20, 2015The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, which started its Spring General Assembly this morning in Indianapolis, opened their conference with a prayer for the victims of the shooting as well as the victims of a massive apartment fire in London last night. USCCB Vice President Archbishop Jose Gomez gave the prayer, which was also posted to Twitter.

The bishops begin their meeting with a prayer for those impacted by violence in Alexandria and London. #USCCB17 pic.twitter.com/jcsF1Byosu

— US Catholic Bishops (@USCCB) June 14, 2017Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, D.C. also tweeted that he was praying for the congressmen and victims of the

Roughly 15-25 people were at the practice, including Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Jeff Flake, R-Ariz. Paul told MSNBC that “it would have been a massacre" if Capitol Police weren’t there.

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stevegravy said:
**As the rhetoric escalates expect the unhinged to become unhinged. You shout resist then have the guts to own it.
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PS I am not a partisan, just a casual observer. Here is a prediction, if the non-sense from the DNC and RNC continues expect more with retaliation guaranteed and we can watch the US slip in to third world status…
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And this seems to be the case here.
 
The shooter from what we know appears to be a radical leftist, and radical leftists believed in using violence against people they disagree with long before Donald Trump thought about running for President.
 
Am I surprised this has happened? No.

I am surprised it has taken so long to happen with the vicious rhetoric put out everyday
by the mainstream media against our President.
Thankful the security detail was there to fire back and praying for a full recovery for
everyone injured.

Praying this will be a wake up call to the media they need to be responsible for the daily
hateful attacks they make 24 hours a day since President Trump was elected.
 
A Bernie supporter, described progressive shoots up a GOP congress critter softball team and in 3…2…1… “Police do not know what was the alleged gunman motivation”
 
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A Bernie supporter, described progressive shoots up a GOP congress critter softball team and in 3…2…1… “Police do not know what was the alleged gunman motivation”
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They will also search for possible Russia connections.
 
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